Smackmud's game Reviews on Newgrounds

[SnackOlantern]

Decent graphics can't save this game...

It's almost as if you guys decided on Nov 2nd that "Hey! Maybe we should have made a halloween game.." and quickly slapped this lame excuse for a time killer together in a couple of hours. While the graphics were decent, the audio was very repetitive and annoying ("chomp chomp chomp howl chomp howl chomp chomp chomp"...you get the picture), and there was no challenge to this game at all. No baddies to dodge, just a race against the clock to gobble up as many little goulies as possible. No limit to reach, nothing to say that you've won or lost, just a meaningless score at the end of it all. I've seen much better works from you guys...carious welting is an example. That game was fun, it had an interesting concept and a polished feel, as well as awsome style. I realize that all games can't be great, but with this last one it seams that you guys arn't even trying. Thanks for a boring time.

[Pumpkin Simulator 2003]

A message from the P.T.P foundation...

As an active member of the P.T.P (Protect the Pumpkins) foundation I am hearby obligated to file a formal complaint against the author of this obscene flash program. I feel that it is my duty to discourage any anti-pumpkin pro-jack-o-lantern activities that come to my attention. As the pumpkins cannot speak for themselves, we here at the P.T.P foundation are burdend with the responsibility to be the voice of these helpless vegitables. Naturally we are opposed to the old halloween tradition of pumpkin mutilation. This is a sick, sensless crime that must be stopped. These pumpkins cannot defend themselves, and pose no threat to the human population. Also, this activity could also be construed as racism, as it is only pumpkins (and occasionally large squashes) that are targeted for these activities. No one ever carves a tomato, for example.

With plenty of other halloween decoration choices available, we at the P.T.P do not feel that pumpkin desicration is nescisary, and we urge all would-be partakers of this ancient tradition to find other non-pumpkin related holliday activites.

P.S.
Pumpkin pie is OK as long as the pumpkin was mercifully killed before preperation.

[Trapped 4]

Great puzzle game!

Great time killer! Fun puzzle game that seams to borrow a bit from classic games such as the original Zelda, Doom (the keys), and Fool's Errand. Simple but functional graphics reminded me of those old games you used to play on the old IBM 8086's. If I have a beef with this game it is that while a lot of the puzzles are quite good, the overall quality is a mixed bag. While some of the puzzles really required you to think (the block-in-the-maze puzzle and the kill-your-own-double puzzle come to mind), other "puzzles" are totally linear and pointless (the room full of blue buttons, for example). I found that most of the puzzles could be solved without much "puzzling". Nevertheless, a lot of fun, and a solid puzzle game. Keep up the good work!

[! Fishy !]

Mmmmm.....seafood.....

Great addictive little game. Nice clean graphics, good controls. I've only got a couple of beefs with this game:

1) Good clean graphics, but it is really hard to tell if a fish is bigger than you when they are closer in size. I guess you just have to be carefull.

2) I never got my fish very big, but I'll bet it gets pretty crowded the bigger you get...

3) Where's the sound, man? Great music track, but give us some sound! It doesn't have to be anything fancy, but a gulp when you eat another fish that gets deeper pitched when you get bigger would be cool...

Great game, keep up the good work! One hairy thumb up.

[WeaponOfBushDestruction]

Bush is a dolt.

I find it kind of amusing how a simple little game like this one seems to spark a rather involved political debate. However, while we are on the subject, let me get a few things off my chest.
The world has seen it's share of evil geniuses in the past...Hitler, Nepolean, the Kahn's, and of course Sadam himself to name a few. G.W. Bush definatly does not fall into this category. He is simply too stupid. He is what I would call an "Evil Idiot". Bush entered office looking for a fight. This was evedent by the numerous international incidents that sprung up almost immediatly after he delcared himself president. The expulsion of the Russian diplomats, the Chinese/US spyplane incident, numerous trade disputes etc. In a few short months, Bush undid everything the Clinton administration worked so hard to achieve. I don't blame him for Sept 11th, allthough my gut tells me otherwise. I DO blame him for Iraq...Sadam is a bad guy, but US's resons for going to war, and the way they conducted themselves during and after the war, speak volumes about the competency and the true nature of the Bush Administration. Still think he is a great guy? He is crippling the US economy. He is willfully planing on taking the US people into a $6,000,000,000,000 debt by 2010.
And he doens't even care.
Hell, he wasn't even elected.
SteelSeraphim seems to forget that after the votes were finally sorted out, Gore was actually the winner. However, this was well after Bush had stirred his country into a state of fear.
The "Greatest Country on Earth", and it's scared to death. Of what? Why terrorists of course. People who's affairs have been meddle with by the US for so long that they can't stand it any more.
Who's a potential terrorist? Why everyone, of course. Bush's brilliant solution?

Kill them all!

(by the way, decent graphics for the game, gameplay left a little to be desired)